I have just found an article on one of the spanish forums about Roman's wild behaviour in his career. If this is true , I don't know I it could be tolerated!

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Anna Semenovich was an ice dancer, who competed at the 1998 world championships with Vladimir Fedorov, who had won the bronze medal at the 1993 world championships with Angelika Krilova. The following year, she skated with Roman Kostomarov ...... Anna Semenivitch says the following!

Roma
turned out to be a partner with a very difficult character. He was always
insulting me, throwing me down from lifts on purpose and could even hit me.
On the ice it was always cursing, swearing, cursing. IN the year I skated
with him, I learned words and phrases that I had never even heard before
.......

then someone says!!
[quote]Once Roma hit Anka so hard that she got a concussion.!!!!


Then she continues her story!!!
I went up to Roma and started to demand an answer, 'You son of a
bitch, what are you trying to do?' He sat there and rolled his eyes and
with complete lack of remorse said, ‘No…well, it’s ONLY THE
SECOND TIME’.

If this is true, how can a athlete like that be awarded sooooo many medal!!!?????

I was really shocked when I read this!!!

Hello!



I think it may be true! It does not surprise me at all! :lol!:He looks sooo unfocused on everything....

Rather a complicated situation! And poor girl , his partner at the time! She should have slapped him on the face!

What a situation!!!
No wonder he divorced his wife already !!!

this man seems to be a very nasty person I can't imagine someone behaving so badly. I'm speechless

....i was under the impression that athletes are more capable of controling themselves, their rage or tension than others. they are trained to know the body and the mind..

i have no idea if this is true. if that was the case, i think that zhulin would have forbidden his wife too dance with him. i know, in sports you sacrifice a lot and you have to do this in order to succeed but there is a limit. and i think if this was the case than the pair would have not survived so far.

maybe, he used to be like this before dancing with tatiana and then he changed...

i wouldn't belive this so quick...

Girls, as far as I'm concerned, that article is from one of russian tabloids. My friend told me about it... I don't think that you should believe it... She also told that he was a heavy drunkard and so on... That's just a gossip< I think :|

YESSSSSS! I do believe it is!

And so on...and so on about Roman! I didn't quote the whole article, but I want to believe tt's only gossip, or perhaps the girl has some kind of grudge against Roman!
She Does make verrrry serious accusations!!!!
I think such events would be unthinkable to happen in the russian team!

I think it may be gossip too!
And from a russian tabloid? Perhaps they just want to sell and sell :Perhaps the girl really wants to say bad things about Roman! Wants some revenge on him!!!

But Roman is verrrrry bad in the whole picture!

Wowww... that is quite the article. But I find it difficult to believe a word this girl says.

I've read this article before and I don't know whether to think it's true (or all true, or some true, or whatever) or not, but I have to say that unfortunately partner abuse is not uncommon in skating. I've seen it many, many times on rinks where I've trained and coached. Hopefully if any of this about Roman was true, he has reformed himself since, but the truth is that many times girls are so desperate to find partners that they'll put up with a lot of things to get and keep one. Even things they shouldn't put up with.

I am sure that one day(may be soon) Navka will brake up with"Charming " Zulin.Remember my words!

That would not astonish me much, really!!! :tongue:

I really do not know what to think about those three after all that has been said and written about them!

And , I bet, we common fans don`t know half of it........

quite a trio...

i admit i don't know much about them. never been so interested. but as far as i know, tatiana is pregnant for the second time and zhulin is the dad (i think). and if they are planning to break up or they don't get along, why the second baby?...i mean you don't do this deliberately to your child...

what do i know? maybe it's better to stay out of this.
as bea said

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And , I bet, we common fans don`t know half of it........

maybe all of this is speculation...or not..

The whole story sounds to me really like a tabloid looking for a big scandal. Of course I believe that in every rumour there`s a spark of truth, so maybe Roman isn`t (or wasn`t) that kind to his partners, but to be so crude - I can`t believe it - it would`ve been to big scandal and a figure like Roman is aware of the fact that such a scandal will influence his reputation and as a result more or less his reputation in the ice skating world (along the judges too). Not that this would`ve been fatal but, however, I don`t believe that Roman is so stupid to let it happen. On the other hand, it`s obvious that Roman has much more success than the girl that is telling these stories, so it`s normal that she envys him. That`s why I don`t think that this article shows the truth, although it could be revealing at least part of it.